wisdom Quotes

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

I teach that all men are mad.